Recap
Editing this book of World War II letters has taken over my life, as well as making things for Sea Monkey. However, Sea Monkey will no longer be referred to as such because his parents has chosen a tentative name for him! From now on, and until a middle name is selected, our grandson-to-be will be called NM.
If his first name is not changed, it will make a number of family members deliriously happy. Why? N just happens to be the same name as his maternal grandfather’s (AKA The Professor) father’s. N has the additional benefit of sounding terrific with his surname and not being in the top ten of popular names for boys born in 2008.
Right now I am making bumpers for N’s crib. (OK, to be honest, right now I am typing a Xanga entry, but devoted readers will understand what I mean.) Iltflinthills and IMO have really made their baby’s room bright, cheery, and welcoming. They are geniuses at obtaining bargains at garage sales although absolutely nothing about N’s room says garage sale.
I get a tremendous kick out of everything Ilflinthills and IMO are doing to prepare for the baby because The Professor and I weren’t able to get that far along before Tremor3258′s arrival. (Do you think moving into our new-to-us-but-really-almost-forty-years-old home sixteen days before Tremor3258 might have a connection?)
Right now IMO is in Mexico on a visit to his family. We are all eagerly awaiting his return. Iltflinthills’s school begins classes on Friday, so she is already busily preparing her classroom. She is hoping to save up enough sick days to get a halfway-decent paid maternity leave.
Apparently I am improving my usefulness quotient because I wake up every morning with the aches of middle age. Yesterday I cleaned a little, went to my quilter’s guild meeting, gassed up 
and washed the minivan, cleaned a little more, got my hair cut, went to the bank, cleaned some more, and cut the grass. And, while all this was going on, The Professor and I shared laundry duties. In the evening I rode the exercise bike for 50 minutes and did my therapy exercises while watching the Olympics on TV. Those gymnasts are awesome!
Today I have to clean off my desk again.
